Yesterday, Agent Bedhead announced that August: Osage County had come to Oklahoma (where she lives), and that the local papers were being flooded with images of Benedict Cumberbatch. Can you believe this? MY Cumberbatch obsession reaches new heights on a daily basis, and BEDHEAD is the one to get a visit from Cumby?! It’s enough to make me unsheathe my slut-shank, except that Bedhead is pretty ambivalent towards Cumby, so it’s not like she’s going to stalk him and try to make him her beloved (which is what I would do if he came within 60 miles of me). Of course, I’m also trying to convince Bedhead that she should try to hook George Clooney when he comes to town for the same film. An example of the advice I gave her: “He would probably give you a few pieces of decent jewelry too (depending on how well you can choke him).” Bedhead + headlock + Clooney = MAGIC.

Anyway, back to Cumberbatch. He’s up for another BIG role, and it’s a role that an American actor was already associated with. Back in July, there were rumors that Jeremy Renner was going to play Julian Assange in an upcoming film directed by Bill Condon. Well, now it seems Renner is out and Cumberbatch is in? I could actually see this. SO MUCH.

The conversations on DreamWorks‘ Julian Assange film that Twilight Saga’s Bill Condon will likely direct is now with Benedict Cumberbatch playing the WikiLeaks founder, and Robocop‘s Joel Kinnaman playing his former right hand man, Daniel Domscheit-Berg. The studio would not confirm this, but it seemed intriguing and dishy enough to discuss. DreamWorks acquired the books WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War On Secrecy, by David Leigh and Luke Harding, and Inside WikiLeaks: My Time With Julian Assange At The World’s Most Dangerous Website, written by Domscheit-Berg. Josh Singer wrote the script.

During the summer, word surfaced that DreamWorks had some loose discussions with Jeremy Renner, so we’ll have to see where this goes. Assange launched WikiLeaks in 2006 and established himself as a major thorn in the side of governments for leaking embarrassing diplomatic cables and secrets. He has been dealing with his own legal travails, as Sweden wants to try him for sexually assaulting two women and the U.S. wants to prosecute him for leaking classified documents, after it arrested an Army soldier for allegedly providing Assange with the goods. The film’s third act continues to unfold, but there is no shortage of projects based on the polarizing figure. Universal and Marc Shmuger have an Alex Gibney-directed documentary, while HBO, Universal and Megan Ellison are also working on films.

Cumberbatch is on a star track, and not just because he’s signed on to costar in Star Trek Into Darkness. The Sherlock star is doing August: Osage County, the Steve McQueen-directed Twelve Years A Slave and he plays The Necromancer, and, from what I hear, the voice of Smaug in Peter Jackson’s upcoming The Hobbit trilogy.

No matter how you slice it, I think Cumby is always going to be a better choice for Assange rather than Jeremy Renner, and I say that as a devoted fan-girl of both men. Assange is so peculiar, so wickedly strange, and Cumby has those vibes in spades. Plus, Assange has that bizarro accent, half-English, half-Australian with some Americanized inflections, and I’m sorry, I just don’t think Renner could pull it off. Cumby could.

Plus, you know… Cumby does look like Assange. Imagine Cumby with a white-blonde wig. This is happening.

Ugh. As much as I adore Cumby and wish him all the success in the world, why are they giving that PoS Assange coverage?
He disgusts me. If he was innocent, he wouldn’t have requested asylum from Ecuador.
He’s probably hiding away somewhere laughing at this.
That being said, Cumberbatch definitely has the acting chops to pull this off.

“Ugh. As much as I adore Cumby and wish him all the success in the world, why are they giving that PoS Assange coverage?He disgusts me. If he was innocent, he wouldn’t have requested asylum from Ecuador.”
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I agree.

And I would not want the very unqiue Cumberbatch, to get the stink of Assange on him.

I’m curious to see what position the film will take on Assange’s guilt or innocence on the sexual assault charges, and whether it will portray him as a fundamentally sympathetic/righteous figure.

Relatedly, it’s pretty much guaranteed that if Cumberbatch takes the role, he will stick his foot in his mouth and plunge himself into 20 different PR disasters when he starts doing interviews about the film. I’m cringing already.

This. It seems like it would be wise for him to stay away from roles in which he is likely to say something incredibly stupid. Can you imagine what the press tour is going to be like for Twelve Years a Slave when he has another chance to bemoan his “perceived privileged” status? Yeesh.

I dunno if poser is the right word. I mean, I think he’s in this weird crisis wherein he doen’t want to be considered posh because of pigeonholing. He even avoided the Oxbridge route for college and yet no matter how you look at it- in his way of talking, way of carrying himself, preferences, group of friends, etc. he’s posh through and through. See, even if his parents are just mere TV/ theatre actors they still earn more than the average Londoner and keep good company. Not to mention he’s public schooling. The social and cultural capital he got growing up is undeniably posh.

See, even if his parents are just mere TV/ theatre actors they still earn more than the average Londoner and keep good company. Not to mention he’s public schooling. The social and cultural capital he got growing up is undeniably posh.

Sigh. I used to love him so much, but his inability to keep his noisehole shut killed my ladyboner. Although someone on his PR team must have gotten the message since there haven’t been too many print interviews lately. And the Tumblr crazies seem to be infiltrating everywhere which makes reading about him less fun.

The Tumblr-inas are intensely weird. They have redefined the word “obsessed” for me. I try to keep in mind that they’re probably mostly teens/tweens, but the stuff they say on both Cumbers’ & Hiddles’ fan pages has made my jaw drop. They even do porn drawings of their guys. This is just the tip of the Cumber/Hiddles-berg. It’s freaky & I wonder if C & H ever see this stuff. If I were either of them & saw the tumblr pages about them, I’d barricade myself in my “London flat” ;-/ for a few years….

I want to say, I never felt anything for this man other than he falls on the down side of attractive. Not horrible, but nothing good – that is how I felt. Then, because of this site I watched Sherlock Holmes, freaking amazing. Within minutes I was totally in love! He is awesome!

I guess it was CB’s posts that did the trick for me. I hadn’t seen “Atonement”, nor “Sherlock” (still haven’t) when I noticed him here.

I kept seeing his strange face here — it helps that I’ve always been naturally inclined to pay attention to unique features — checked the links Kaiser posted and BAM! Before I could do anything about it, I was already irremediably in love with the most successful alien living on our planet.

GASP! You love him without seeing Sherlock?! Eve Darling, watch Sherlock (6 episodes in “watchseries.eu”, plus the un-aired pilot). You can Cumberbatch yourself silly on this site. I think they also have The Last Enemy & To the Ends of The Earth (be prepared on this one–you will see the Cumberbum).

I tried to watch South Park’s episodes but it stopped ALL. THE. TIME. Really annoying, I tell you. I tried another website (for series) but when a box with the “.exe” file extension showed up, I gave up.

All I have is Telecine (Brazilian movie channels) and HBO. I’m still waiting for “Stuart: A Life Backwards” (programmed to be aired on HBO Signature, on October 18 here). Oh, and Youtube videos — which allowed me to see his Cumberbum. But I’m greedy: I WANT MORE! MORE! MORE! I want his Cumberbelly, his Cumberpubes. Everything.

P.S.: I’ve been talking about Sherlock with my geeky friends, to see if any of them will download it, enjoy it and lend me afterwards .

Cumby has joked that he’s done so much on BBC that he may change his initials.

BTW, this may have been the first time we saw Cumby in a love scene (first episode) & his Bitches & Babes were going nuts over this!

To The Ends of The Earth was fantastic–PBS Masterpiece again. I watched it on Youtube. “Wreckers” is on YT also.

You can see just about everything he’s done on YouTube—can you get YouTube without glitches? I know what you mean with the stops & starts–that’s annoying as hell.

For some reason, I have not found Stuart: A Life Backwards to watch in its entirety. Just some long clips—but it looked good. It sounds like you’ll get to see this before I do—I shall await your review! Tom Hardy looked so convincing as this character–I could barely tell it was him.

Well, I’ve gone on too much probably…but I hope some of this works for you. “Watchseries.eu” really is a fantastic site & it’s a Hot British Men treasure trove. It almost always plays without glitches. My internet connection is dodgy sometimes & it can be very frustrating. It doesn’t sound to me like you’re “internet dumb”—it sounds like the technology/connections aren’t working like they should be.

I really hope you get to see Sherlock soon. You are in for a great time. It’s not just the Cumberbatchness–the whole thing is fantastic. Fabulously written, great actors, true suspense—it’s one of the best things I’ve ever seen, & I thought that before the Cumby-Bug bit me.

@ Eve
I don’t usually spend money on DVDs, & certainly not if I can watch things online, but in the case of Sherlock it just might be worth it! Just in case you want to check this, I’m sending this link to Amazon.com, as their prices are better than PBS Shop. But I’m hoping you can find a good way to watch things online, too.

I know. I’ve been checking Amazon — but importing anything right now would be really expensive (there’s the currency difference, plus taxes).

I also checked a Brazilian website (Submarino) and, apparently, the first season seems affordable. But in any case, I’ll have to wait for my birthday and HEAVILY suggest friends/family should give me as a present .

I decided to check ONTD posts about him and even though I think some are really unfair (judging him in real life based on how disgusted they were with his character in “Atonement”, for instance, is ridiculous), there are others who crack me up.

I think Renner would be a better option, but I’m not complaining about having the chance to watch more movies featuring Benedict Cumberbatch .